CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Skydiver Luke Aikins lands safely after jumping 25, 000 feet from an airplane without a parachute or wing suit. Jumping out of a plane from 25, 000 feet with no parachute may be unthinkable to most people except US citizen Luke Aikins. He had in 2016 become the first person to do so and land safely in a net.

Detailed explanation-2: -The highest verified altitude you can skydive from in the United States is 30, 000 feet. For context, this is in the range of standard cruising altitude for a commercial airline and about 7 miles up. In other words, much higher than your average skydive at 10, 000 feet or nearly 2 miles up!

Detailed explanation-3: -Vesna Vulovic was a Serbian flight attendant who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10, 160 m (33, 330 ft; 6.31 mi)

Detailed explanation-4: -Many BASE jumps start out between 1, 000 and 3, 000 feet and you usually have less than 15 seconds to deploy your parachute. Skydivers usually open their chutes at around 2, 000 feet, whereas in BASE jumping the minimum altitude is somewhere around 200 feet.